Anatol Țăranu

Anatol Țăranu OR
Țăranu in 2014
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 24 March 2005 – 22 April 2009
Parliamentary group	Our Moldova Alliance
In office 17 April 1990 – 10 June 1993
Parliamentary group	Popular Front
Constituency	Telenești
Special Missions Advisor to the President
In office 4 February 1997 – 5 June 1998
President	Petru Lucinschi
Succeeded by	Gheorghe Cîrlan
Moldovan Ambassador to Russia
In office 10 June 1993 – 26 August 1994
President	Mircea Snegur
Prime Minister	Andrei Sangheli
Preceded by	Petru Lucinschi
Succeeded by	Valeriu Pasat
Personal details
Born	(1951-10-19) 19 October 1951 (age 73) Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	National Liberal Party (Moldova), Party Alliance Our Moldova
Other political affiliations	Popular Front of Moldova
Children	Teodor, Cristian, Gabriela
Alma mater	Moldova State University, 1978

Anatol Țăranu (born 19 October 1951) is a Moldovan former politician and diplomat.

Țăranu holds a Ph.D. in history, 1986, and served as member of the Parliament of Moldova (1990–1993, 2005–2009). Țăranu has also been a chief expert for the Chişinău side during negotiations with separatist leaders in Transnistria. Between 1993 and 1995, Țăranu was Moldovan Ambassador to Moscow, and between 1997 and 1998 he was an advisor with special missions to the President of the Republic of Moldova. At the third congress of the Social Democratic Party, 25–26 February 1995, Anatol Țăranu was elected as a new head of the party.^[1]

After 2005 parliamentary election, Anatol Țăranu was excluded from Party Alliance Our Moldova. On 16 December 2006, Țăranu became a deputy chairman of the new National Liberal Party; Țăranu left the party in November 2008 because he disagreed with the party's decision to stand for parliament in 2009 jointly with the European Action Movement.^[2]

He currently works as Director of the Political Science and Political History Centre of the State University of Moldova and at the History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, where he worked before becoming a deputy.^[3]

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